How to provide required FQDN to ipa-client when system hostname has to be a short hostname

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Issue

  • SAP requires the system hostname to be a short hostname and ipa-client requires the hostname the to be a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • ipa-client

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